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Weekly Package Summary
by Don Stewart 13 Sep '08

13 Sep '08

A weekly update of Haskell in Arch Linux. Arch currently has 563 Haskell packages in AUR. The 10 most popular by AUR packages votes: xmobar 0.9-3 A minimal status bar for the XMonad Window Manager haskell-utf8-string 0.3.1.1-2 Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings haskell-cabal 1.4.0.2-1 A framework for packaging Haskell software haskell-xft 0.2-2 Bindings to the Xft library, and some Xrender parts haddock 2.2.2-2 A documentation-generation tool for Haskell libraries gtk2hs 0.9.13-1 A GTK+2 binding for Haskell cabal2arch 0.4-1 Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages haskell-http 3001.0.4-2 haskell-zlib 0.4.0.4-3 Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats cabal-install 0.5.2-1 The command-line interface for Cabal and Hackage haskell-curl 1.3.2.1-1 Haskell binding to libcurl == New and updated packages this week == Haskell Packages in AUR haskell-citeproc-hs-0.1 "A Citation Style Language implementation in Haskell" haskell-dataenc-0.11.1 "Data encoding library" twidge-0.99.2 "Unix Command-Line Twitter and Identica Client" haskell-ansi-terminal-0.5.0 "Simple ANSI terminal support, with Windows compatibility" We moved back to haxml 1.13, as it is the stable branch: haskell-haxml-1.13.3 "Utilities for manipulating XML documents" haskell-data-accessor-template-0.1.4 "Utilities for accessing and manipulating fields of records" haskell-data-accessor-0.1.4 "Utilities for accessing and manipulating fields of records" New release of cabal2arch: cabal2arch-0.4 "Create Arch Linux packages from Cabal packages" haskell-kibro-0.0 "Web development framework." haskell-heap-0.3.1 "Heaps in Haskell" Cute new blog engine for Haskell haskell-panda-0.0.0.2 "Simple Static Blog Engine" haskell-download-curl-0.1.1 "High-level file download based on URLs" haskell-n-m-0.0.1 "Utility to call iwconfig." graphmod-1.1.1 "Present the module dependecies of a program as a \"dot\" graph." haskell-mime-0.2.1 "Working with MIME types." haskell-terminfo-0.2.1 "Haskell bindings to the terminfo library." haskell-vty-3.1.0 "A simple terminal access library" haskell-hgal-1.0.2 "library for computation automorphism group and canonical labelling of a graph" haskell-pandoc-0.46 "Conversion between markup formats" haskell-missingh-1.0.2.0 "Large utility library" haskell-hunit-1.2.0.0 "A unit testing framework for Haskell" haskell-hdbc-1.1.5 "Haskell Database Connectivity" haskell-happs-util-0.9.2.1 "Web framework" haskell-encode-0.7 "Encoding character data" haskell-astar-0.2.1 "General A* search algorithm." haskell-dbus-0.3 "DBus bindings" haskell-xml-parsec-1.0.2 "Parsing XML with Parsec" haskell-pkcs1-1.0.2 "RSA encryption with PKCS1 padding" haskell-hsgnutls-0.2.3.2 "Library wrapping the GnuTLS API."

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RSS feed for new AUR packages
by Don Stewart 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

Haskell packages uploaded to AUR will appear on this rss feed, http://code.haskell.org/arch/aur.xml Cheers, Don

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distributing documentation
by Roman Cheplyaka 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

I came from Debian world. One of things I like in Debian is mandatory documentation for each package. In arch there seems to be another practice -- I don't have /usr/share/doc at all. I don't know whether arch has some policy concerning documentation, but can't we do better at least in arch-haskell land? I mean to include haddock docs in haskell packages. For me it sounds abusive, that having packages installed I need to search Internet for their documentation. -- Roman I. Cheplyaka :: http://ro-che.info/ kzm: My program contains a bug. How ungrateful, after all I've done for it.

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Re: [arch-haskell] distributing documentation
by Don Stewart 07 Sep '08

07 Sep '08

matt: > On Sun, Sep 07, 2008 at 11:06:47AM -0700, Don Stewart wrote: > > Not every package has haddocks that build, and it adds haddock as a new > > dependency to the build process. > > Why is this such a bad thing? Haddock is something most haskell users > have on their systems. The build system is already fairly ... large. And the point of the package system is to make Haskell things available to non-Haskell users -- those who don't already have a full toolchain installed. Given the docs are already been pre-generated for us on hackage.haskell.org, for each package, we could just suck those down. -- Don

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Happenings of late
by Vesa Kaihlavirta 06 Sep '08

06 Sep '08

Hi, Not much to report for me. There was a huge ncurses update that required an upgrade of ghc to 6.8.2-2. Nothing changed there, just a rebuild. We thought of going to 6.8.3, but decided not to due to some issues that have been reported against it. 6.10 should be just around the corner, though. I noticed that our ghc isn't built with the typical "distribution" optimization set, so I added that. That change didn't get to 6.8.2-2, though. And just recently, I updated xmonad, xmonad-contrib to 0.8 and uploaded to i686. I'll upload x86_64 on monday. --vk

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Re: Orphaning 'riot' in AUR
by Don Stewart 28 Aug '08

28 Aug '08

hoelz: > Don Stewart <dons(a)galois.com> wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > I see that you maintain riot, > > > > http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=164 > > > > I've worked on this with Tuomo, and have prepared an up to date > > package for the latest release. We can maintain it under the Arch > > Haskell umbrella, if you'd like to orphan it. > > > > http://www.galois.com/~dons/riot.tar.gz > > > > Cheers, > > Don > > Sounds good to me. It's been done. Please give it a good home. =D Cheers, updated: http://aur.archlinux.org/packages.php?ID=164 Tuomo says, I'm not in the cabal and don't care about their shit. Riot has no non-standard deps, because they're too fast moving targets, and everything seems to be arranged into a Single Global Megahierarchy That Perfectly Categorises Everything To The Point Of Total Unusability. So he's rejected the cabalisation upstream, sadly. -- Don

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darcs patch: Typo correction in String Constant (and 2 more)
by Matthew William Cox 27 Aug '08

27 Aug '08

Sun Aug 24 01:06:28 EDT 2008 Matthew William Cox <matt(a)mattcox.ca> * Typo correction in String Constant Sun Aug 24 03:29:17 EDT 2008 Matthew William Cox <matt(a)mattcox.ca> * Lift corePackages into an IO action Sun Aug 24 04:11:31 EDT 2008 Matthew William Cox <matt(a)mattcox.ca> * Dynamically generate the core packages

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500 Haskell packages now in AUR
by Don Stewart 20 Aug '08

20 Aug '08

10 weeks after the Arch Haskell group started, there are now 500 Haskell packages bundled up for Arch. I've written about how we automated the construction of Arch packages from Haskell Cabal format, via the cabal2arch tool, and a small survey of 10 nice packages from the set, here, http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2008/08/21#the_500 Cheers, Don

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dependencies missing in PKGBUILDs
by Adam Vogt 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

cabal2arch should add dependencies that appear in the register script (maybe versioned depends too), but are only makedepends: example: haskell-blas has no dependencies, but the register script fails needing ieee-0.2. That information des not appear in the cabal file, but maybe it exists somewhere other than the register scripts. Lots of packages are missing dependencies like this: using the haskell-overlay now requires that you check ghc-pkg's output for missing dependencies.

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Re: [arch-dev-public] disowned pkgs
by Don Stewart 05 Jul '08

05 Jul '08

kpiche: > All, > > I've dropped some pkgs for functional languages I know nothing about. > Hopefully some of the new devs will pick 'em up. > > haskell: hugs98, nhc98 > lisp: sbcl > scheme: bigloo, drscheme > > Just a warning that the haskell stuff and sbcl don't build. > > k > 'Arch-Haskell', aka vegai and me, will take up hugs and nhc. Thanks for letting us know! -- Don

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